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Black. Brown. Green. Who, What & Where.
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Here are some of the publications, people and organizations that are taking the lead in bringing people of color green and pushing the green movement to incorporate issues of social justice. Articles you can find on BBG are noted under each listing.
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Alternet
AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of dozens of other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire citizen action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, and health care issues. Our editorial mix underscores a commitment to fairness, equity and global stewardship, and making connections across generational, ethnic and issue lines. AlterNet serves as a reliable filter, keeping hundreds of thousands of people well-informed and engaged, helping them cope with a culture of information overload and resist the constant commercial media onslaught. Our aim is to stimulate, motivate, and engage. http://Alternet.org |
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ColorLines
ColorLines is the leading national, multi-racial magazine devoted to the creativity and complexity of communities of color. ColorLines features the no-holds-barred writing on the issues that affect these communities and strives to expose popular lies, reveals hidden truths, and prioritizes the critical stories other publications ignore. http://colorlines.com |
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leadership.
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Dr. David Suzuki is a living legend. Co-Founder of the David Suzuki Foundation, he is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has become known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment. Suzuki has recently decided to retire to the Canadian wilderness to carve wood, fish and relax.
Robert D. Bullard, director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. His most recent books include, The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution (Sierra Club Books, 2005) and Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (MIT Press, 2007). His website is at: www.ejrc.cau.edu.
Americans on the “Fenceline” Have No Defense: People of Color More Concentrated Near Hazardous Waste Facilities Than Twenty Years Ago
Danny Glover is an outspoken activist for social justice and environmental rehabilitation. He's been quoted as saying "If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica." and
"It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment."
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Majora Carter is the Macarthur-winning founder of Sustainable South Bronx and Greening the Ghetto organizations dedicated to holistic community development, sponsoring projects that create jobs, protect the environment and bring beautiful green space to the inner city.
Heather C. Flores, is the author of Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community and a co-founder of the original Food Not Lawns grassroots gardening project in Eugene, OR. Heather's next project is to use low-tech performance arts to bridge cultural and economic gaps in environmental education. She challenges the permaculture movement to take on issues of social (particularly economic) justice and inequality.
Amitabh Bachchan
Concerned about India's vulnerability to climate change, Amitabh Bachchan helped launch a partnership between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy to use the power of cinema to build awareness of the issue.
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Van Jones, is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, California
a strategy and action center, working for justice, peace, and opportunity in urban America. more
The New Environmentalists: How to Make the Green Movement Less White 
Arundhati Roy
India's environment is facing a major crisis, caused by industrial pollution, by big dams, and in particular by unsustainable use of ground water to irrigate thirsty cash crops such as soyabeans, peanuts and sugarcane. Roy says "When the only logic is the market, when there is no respect for ecosystems, for the amount of water available... then we are in for a lot of trouble," she said. "You have to have a system where people have access to some amount of water to grow whatever is sustainable for them to survive."
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Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and author of many books. In India she has established Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers' rights. She directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. Her most recent books are Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply.
damali ayo, founder, BlackBrownGreen.com.
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organizations.
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First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit (1991) We, the People of Color, are gathered together at this First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction of our lands and communities, do hereby reestablish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; we respect and celebrate each of our cultures, languages and beliefs about the natural world and our roles in healing ourselves; to insure environmental justice; to promote economic alternatives which would contribute to the development of environmentally safe livelihoods; and to secure our political, economic and cultural liberation that has been denied for over 500 years of colonization and oppression, resulting in the poisoning of our communities and land and the genocide of our peoples, do affirm and adopt these Principles of Environmental Justice.
Principles of Environmental Justice
ColorOfChange
ColorOfChange.org exists to strengthen Black America's political voice. Our goal is to empower our members—Black Americans and our allies—to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Environmental Justice Resource Center
David Suzuki Foundation
Mujeres de la Tierra
National Hispanic Environmental Council (NHEC) is bringing these concerns to a larger arena. Founded by Roger Rivera in 1996, NHEC was created to speak for Latinos when they "had no place in national ecological politics." The organization champions Latinos' rights to clean air, clean water, and other basic rights that all Americans should enjoy. |
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white folks.
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Robert Gottlieb is a professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Occidental College. His book, Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it from vital issues of everyday life, such as workplace safety, healthy communities, and food security, that are often viewed separately as industrial, community, or agricultural concerns. This fragmented approach prevents an awareness of how these issues are also environmental issues.
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Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, and an adjunct professor at Portland State University. He is also Scholar in Residence at Pacific University. He was associate editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. His current project is developing urban sustainability resources in Portland, Oregon Toby is one of the main leaders challenging members of the permaculture movement to see beyond their gardens into issues of social justice and equality. |
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Richard Taralian a retired Police Captain after 30 years of serviceis a leading Nonviloence educator. Concurrent with his police work, Taralian has given non-violence training sessions with a wide range of communities including the Providence Police Department, with correctional officers at the Wyatt Detention Center, and with inmates at the ACI Training School for juveniles. He has also offered the training in Britain at Bradford University - in the town called home by the suspects in the London terrorism bombings. "It's important to try and promote non-violence in today's atmosphere of fear, mistrust and extremism," Says Taralian |
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Tim Wise is the Director of the Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE) in Nashville, Tennessee. He lectures across the country about the need to combat institutional racism, gender bias, and the growing gap between rich and poor in the U.S. Wise believes that racism in the United States is no longer an overt entity and must be challenged on a psychological level. He argues that most white Americans inadvertently support a racist system of oppression.
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